Sentence examples for midst of vast from inspiring English sources

First, they went to see El Hatico, a cattle ranch near Cali, that is pioneering sustainable husbandry in the midst of vast sugarcane fields.

It's good to know that, in the midst of vast indifference and mediocrity and narcissism, mankind did manage to produce the St . Matthew Passionand the Mass in B minor.

The knowledge of past performances and the energy with which it is pursued paints pictures for me of people at home in the midst of vast electrical apparatuses -- stopwatch in one hand, urtext in the other -- endlessly crisscrossing between the Mengelberg and the Furtwangler tempo, or the Heifitz and the Elman rubato.

He left Columbia for a seemingly quieter University of Virginia in 1970 only to find the American South in the midst of vast social change finally busy dismantling Jim Crow.

Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are the only mammal that dares to swim long distances under sea ice, traveling up to 20 kilometers in hour-long bursts as they scan for air holes and an eventual exit somewhere in the midst of vast Antarctic sheets.

The bark from Eastern hemlock trees was used in the tanning process, and the village originally sat in the midst of vast forests of hemlock.

Most of China's big cities are in the midst of similarly vast building booms.

America was in the midst of a vast technological upheaval around Internet technologies.

Now there are a lot of little boutiques in the midst of a vast suburban plot".

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

Sometimes I felt as if I were in the midst of a vast, giddy conceptual art installation.